Chris Froome’s 2020 Bike size

The British Pro racer has won four times the Tour de France, two times the Vuelta a Espana and one time the Giro d’Italia.
Love him or hate him, you got to admit he is one of the greatest pro road bike racer.

It was unfortunate Chris Froome (aka Froomey) got badly injured during the 2019 season and couldn’t defend his Tour de France domination for the 2019 edition.

For the 2020 season Chris is racing on the new Pinarello Dogma F12 X Light which is claimed to be 200gr. lighter than the F12 version while being stiffer laterally.
As you will see Chris Froome is a unique rider who take great attention to details of his bike set up.
Everything about his position is designed to optimize performance and decrease drag.In this post you will find:

Chris Froome is 186cm tall and race on a 56cm Pinarello Dogma F12 X Light.
As the rest of the Ineos Team he races with rim brakes bike.

The bike will be easy to spot, it is mat black with 7 stripes: 4 yellow, 2 red and 1 pink; representing his wins of 3 Grand tours. I like it as it looks smart.

Look carefully the whole peloton and despite the 2020 trend for team to races with Disc bakes, the General Classification (GC) are all racing on Rim Brakes road bikes.
Few reasons for this; mainly coming from the fact that the Grand Tours are won in mountain stages and thus lighter wheels are preferred.
Faster time to change the wheels is also another big reason when each seconds count in a GC.

The groupset is the Shimano Dura Ace Di2 9100 series 11 speed. Nothing exotic regarding the groupset as the team is sponsored by Shimano.

Chris uses a 175mm length fitted O-symetric 54 / 42 Teeths chainring.

He is one of the very few pro riders racing with O-Symetric chainrings. These chainrings are not oval shaped. They are designed to eliminate or at east reduce the dead spot the legs get when turning the cranks 360 degrees.
Chris has been racing with these since his first Tour de France victory.

The 11 speed cassette is a 11-30 Teeth Dura Ace Titanium.

Another particularity of Chris Froome bike set up is the 130mm length MOST iTalon stem combo with a 380mm width handlebar.
Aero optimization with minimal width, saving waste of Watts.